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Moo of Writing is a unique guide that combines practical tools and meditative wisdom. Poet and journalist Nan Lundeen inspires writers with gentle advice based on her lifetime experience as a writer and backed up by scientific research. Moo of Writing empowers new and established writers, building self-confidence, nudging them along with tips and writing exercises, and drawing on their inner wisdom through meditation. Discover how walking 10 minutes a day or exercising in whatever way works for you can jump-start creativity.

An unwelcome call from Lacey, an old college friend, bodes trouble for Ellie Gooden, longtime Wiccan and proprietor of the Sacred Caff Coffee Shop in Horizon, Wisconsin. Ellie reluctantly agrees to help her friend although it means returning to Chicago, the last place on earth she wants to go.

The weekend before her coffee shop's Grand Opening in the small Wisconsin town of Horizon, former Chicago marketing exec and hereditary Wiccan, Ellie Gooden, opens the back door to her new business...and finds murder. The former owner is dead in the middle of her kitchen, tied to a chair, covered in syrup and feathers, with a butcher knife sticking out of his chest. A stranger in a new town, Ellie climbs immediately to the top of a suspect list of one. To make matters worse, someone is vandalizing both her new shop and her new home.

At the beginning of her career, Sarah "Salt" Alt was a beat cop in Atlanta's poorest, most violent housing project, The Homes. It is here that she meets the cast of misfits and criminals that will have a profound impact on her later cases: Man Man, the leader of the local gang on his way to better places; street dealer Lil D and his family; and Sister Connelly, old and observant, the matriarch of the neighborhood. A lone patrolwoman, Salt's closest lifeline is her friend and colleague Pepper, on his own beat nearby.

We have a time problem, but not the one we think. We want to manage it, control it, spend it, waste it, make it, measure it, and invest it. We even complain that we don't have enough of it. It's as if "being busy" is a new badge of importance, and the "busiest" person wins some imaginary competition. It's Not About Time tackles that topic and others, while addressing the central question: Why do some people achieve their career or business goals, maximize their results, and even accomplish their dreams while others tread water is a sea of busyness?

Mrs. Huffity's fifth grade class has a new project. It's a wish garden. Unfortunately, some of their wishes come true. Carrie, David, and Ivy accidentally travel to another world. To get home, they must save a prince from a curse and stop an evil sorceress. Along the way, they might even become friends.

During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women's institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. On her way to interview witnesses, Detective Sarah "Salt" Alt confronts the fleeing vehicle of the suspects, but they get away. While other detectives take the lead on the Spelman murders, Salt is tasked to investigate the case of a recently discovered decomposed body. When she combs through the missing-persons reports, it becomes clear the victim is a girl Salt took into custody two years before.

Ivy, Carrie, and David stay after school to work on a special book project. When the lights suddenly go out, Mrs. Huffity leaves Carrie in charge with instructions to keep everyone inside. Carrie never imagined how hard that could be. Goblins attack and her friends are scattered. Now it's up to Carrie to keep everyone safe, including a baby unicorn that the goblins desperately want to take. Can she protect the unicorn and save the day?

Sixth grade can be tough, especially in Dusky Hollows. Carrie's magic ring wants to go to the new student, Everett. He's a wheelchair bound sixth-grader with cerebral palsy. But once he has the magic, everything falls apart. Carrie and Ivy get into trouble at school. Everett is kidnapped. And now Ivy and Carrie are in a race against time to save him.

Carrie is spending the summer with her new step-family. Although she's nervous about having a new little sister, Mrs. Huffity warns her that things aren't exactly as they seem. When Carrie stops a group of boys from teasing Shannon, she discovers that something is different about her step-sister. It will be more of a transition than Carrie ever expected. After all, her step-sister isn't human.

Sixteen-year-old Bernadette Terrell is a champion debater who loves books, contests, and winning. When she's named captain of her school's Classics Bowl team to compete on TV against an elite private school for the state title, she's thrilled. It's more than a chance to earn glory for her town, and scholarship money for her family - not to mention make non-fictional friends. She's been training for this her whole life. Winning is her destiny. Or is it?

The friendship between the Coleman and Shepherd families is as old and comfortable as the neighboring houses they occupy each summer on Cape Cod. Samuel and Sarah Coleman love those warm months by the water; the evenings spent on their porch, enjoying gin and tonics, good conversation and homemade clam chowder. Here they’ve watched their sons, Isaac and Asa, grow into fine young men, and watched, too, as Nate Shepherd, aching with grief at the loss of his first wife, finally found love again with the much younger Noelle.

The modest ranch house where Callie Wyeth grew up looks just as she remembers it - right down to the well-worn sheets in the linen closet. But in the years since Callie lived here, almost everything else has changed. Her father, once indomitable, is in poor health. And Callie is a single mother with a beautiful little boy, Henry, who has just been diagnosed with autism. Returning to this quiet New Hampshire community seems the best thing to do, for both her father and her son's sake.

On her first day as a newly minted homicide detective, Sarah "Salt" Alt is given the cold-case murder of a blues musician whose death was originally ruled an accidental drug overdose. Now new evidence has come to light that he may have been given a hot dose intentionally. And this evidence comes from a convicted felon hoping to trade his knowledge for shortened prison time...a man who Salt herself put behind bars.

Depuis la mort de sa femme, Dean Evers trompe l'ennui de ses vieux jours devant les matchs de baseball à la télévision. Quand soudain, dans les gradins, il découvre au cœur de la foule un visage surgi du passé. Quelqu'un qui ne devrait pas être là, au stade... ni même parmi les vivants. Soir après soir, Dean se laisse hypnotiser par les visages de ceux qu'il n'espérait - ou ne voulait - plus voir. Mais le pire est à venir.

De første danske stewardesser er et stykke danmarkshistorie, som ikke er fortalt før. Det er de færreste, der har oplevet det eventyr og den romantik, det var at flyve i 40'erne og 50'erne. Det har stewardesserne, som her for første gang fortæller om deres oplevelser.

Charlie Kadabra feels like the biggest loser ever born. A foster kid, abandoned as a baby, picked on by the bullies at school, he thinks his life stinks, until he tries to save the little rabbit and accidentally blows up his science teacher, who’s a robot! Running for his life, he follows the new girl, Emily, through a shiny curtain in the woods, and lands in the magical world of Mim. Charlie discovers he is the last of the Magicians, who are guardians of the land of Mim. Can Charlie find all the jewels of power for the Magician’s staff his father left him in time to save all his new friends from Dr. Pi’s destruction? This humorous fantasy tale will delight readers of all ages as they find out, there is a little Charlie in all of us.

El viudo Dean Evers se pasa las tardes frente al televisor viendo un partido de béisbol tras otro. Un día empieza a reconocer rostros de personas de su pasado entre las gradas. Hasta que un día aparece la más terrorífica de todas...Desde la muerte de su mujer, Dean Evers se pasa las tardes apoltronado en el sofá viendo partidos de béisbol. Durante una de estas tardes solitarias, mientras mira un partido de los Devil Rays contra los Mariners, la visión de una figura entre las gradas lo saca de su letargo.

The 2011 EAACON in Las Vegas has produced this second collection of seven erotic stories from the sensual pens of the writers in the Erotic Authors Association. Included are 'Sin City' by Anandalila: New places and new hotels can be so exciting, especially when you are expecting someone - someone very special.... 'Window of Opportunity' by Cecilia Tan: When you send a proxy to do your dirty work, it can make you wish you were them. And more....

Muscle Man McGinty can certainly tell some whoppers, but this time he's done the unthinkable. He bragged he can beat the entire block in a game of kickball! On Ramble Street, tough talk about kickball cannot be ignored. For Tamara Ann Simpson, however, this is great news. Now she'll finally be able to prove to everyone what a wormy little runt Muscle Man really is. Of course things would be a lot easier if her best friend Kebsie Grobser were here to help her.